They Regretted it After Their Hearts Turned to Ashes

Ren Chenbai smoked two cigarettes on the rooftop.

The reason why he just left the phone is because Ren Chenbai knows this girl spoiled by the Luo family very well.

Luo Cheng couldn't possibly have the guts to admit it.

...Admitted, what does it mean?

It means that when Luo Cheng left, he knew that Luo Zhi's condition was not right, but he didn't contact the doctors and nurses, and he didn't tell anyone.

It shows that the well-behaved and sensible daughter of the Luo family can really do such a shocking thing. Everyone has to get to know her again and know that she still has such a side.

It explained that Ms. Luo, who was about to make her debut as a big star, had this kind of deadly black material that would destroy her whole being if it came out.

And the Luo family's selfish and cold-blooded nature, which is probably inherited or caused by their family education, is of course displayed to the fullest at this time.

In Luo Cheng's balance, there has never been even the most inconspicuous half-point position that belongs to Luo Zhi.

Hearing Ren Chenbai ask about this matter, Luo Cheng would be terrified, apprehensive and apprehensive, and would have countless concerns.

Afraid of revealing his shady thoughts, afraid of being judged by others, afraid of completely destroying his image...

The only thing she didn't think was whether Luo Zhi's physical condition would deteriorate if the time dragged on longer, and whether it would put Luo Zhi in danger.

If Ren Chenbai really believed what she said on the phone, he would come back later.

Will Luo Zhi die?

……

This is ridiculous.

Ren Chenbai returned to the ward from the rooftop, the phone was still quietly lying beside Luo Zhi's pillow.

No missed calls, not a single message.

On the contrary, the doctor on duty who came to the ward rounds mentioned something suspiciously, saying that there was a call from a hidden number 2 minutes ago that called the guidance desk, hurriedly asked about the situation in ward 1503, and hung up again without explaining anything clearly. up.

Ren Chenbai glanced at Luo Zhi's ward number.

He suddenly became a little interested, and turned on the recording function of the phone: "If I come to check now, can people still be saved?"

The doctor on duty had just finished the examination, he was stunned for a moment, and glanced at Luo Zhi hesitantly.

He didn't know why Mr. Ren would suddenly ask this, and he struggled to choose his words: "Then it's hard to say..."

Ren Chenbai said for him: "It's probably too late."

The doctor on duty has never been so straightforward. After choking for a long time, he could only truthfully admit: "Yes."

Ren Chenbai nodded and put away the phone in satisfaction.

After the doctor left, the ward became quiet again, except for the beeping of the instruments operating as usual.

Luo Zhi lay quietly on the hospital bed.

It seems that he hasn't moved since Ren Chenbai went out, or since Ren Chenbai and Luo Cheng called, he has been lying quietly like this.

Ren Chenbai was not in a hurry to speak.He lowered his head to operate on the phone, saved the recording just now, changed the file name to "387", and saved it in a special folder.

The more than 300 materials stored in the folder are all materials agreed to be provided to Director Gong Hanrou.

Luo Cheng didn't know enough about it. The reason why this documentary didn't go viral was because it not only reproduced the experiences of the trafficked victims during that period.

For the victims who are willing to face the camera directly, the producer will go deep into every detail, continue to track their lives after being rescued, and dig out the buried truth.

The documentary was prepared very early, and the source of inspiration was a story that Ren Chenbai's mother once told Director Gong.

The protagonist of the story is a boy named "Little Flame", who came back after being lost for three years and found that he no longer had a place in the family.

"Flame" was originally supposed to be the first unit of the documentary.Because of Ren's mother's accidental death, Director Gong still couldn't get over the sadness brought about by the early death of his friend, and this has been put on hold until now.

Now Luo Cheng actually wants to fight for the role in the recurring part of the scene in "Fire".

Ren Chenbai thought it was very interesting.

If this unit is really filmed in its entirety, for the Luo family, it will not only be a matter of embarrassment.

How will Master Luo react?

Luo Zhi would probably be killed.

After all, not everyone has the ability to face guilt. Some people will always distort it with resistance, indifference, self-deception, or even hatred.

Who can bear to face the bloody truth?

...Just like Luo Zhi obviously killed his mother, but he always acted like nothing happened, and even dared to make snacks for him.

Ren Chenbai put down his phone, his eyes fell on Luo Zhi.

Before he had time to suppress the coldness in his eyes, Luo Zhi seemed to have noticed something, and suddenly opened his eyes.

Because she had no strength, Jian Mi's eyelashes fluttered slightly twice before they finally opened slowly.

Those eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of fog, the pupils were a little dilated, without a spot, and they were as clean and pure black as washed.

Ren Chenbai frowned unconsciously.

Luo Zhi recognized it for a while, then said softly: "Brother Chenbai?"

He hadn't spoken for a long time. He may have hurt his throat when he lowered the breathing tube, and he was a little hoarse when he spoke.

Reminiscent of seawater that has been boiled for a long time, it no longer has the original clarity. After the dense water vapor evaporates, only salty and rough dull crystals remain.

"Why on earth do you hate me so much?" Luo Zhi seemed to be asking him, but also asking herself, "Did I do something particularly outrageous?"

Ren Chenbai laughed sarcastically.

His laughing voice was very low and cold: "You ask me? Luo Zhi, you come to ask me?"

Luo Zhi was not too surprised by this answer.

After the few people left, he was alone in the ward, watching his vision gradually dim.

The sound of the heartbeat gradually engulfs everything, and finally even those rapid and irregular heartbeats are weakened. When everything returns to silence, the experience of time will be stretched infinitely.

During those seemingly infinite seconds, Luo Zhi was thinking about two things.

The first question is what kind of feelings does Xiaocheng have for him.

The second question is why Ren Chenbai hates him.

Ren Chenbai helped him answer the first question, which was very clear and detailed, perhaps with the purpose of making him feel sad, desperate or in pain when he was hit by the truth.

Luo Zhi had to admit that during the time when Ren Chenbai put down the phone and left the ward, the phone that remained silent was indeed like a cold hammer.

One after another, he smashed his bones leisurely, and then replaced it with a cold ice pick, piercing into the bone marrow.

It doesn't hurt, or maybe he can't remember the feeling of "pain".

What's more, it's a kind of bone-piercing cold that is almost paralyzing. It's so cold that the thick white frost can cut human skin to pieces.

...As for the second question, at the moment when his vision was completely silent, Ren Chenbai in the hallucination answered in this way.

Being able to guess so accurately is probably because Luo Zhi really knows Ren Chenbai too well.

He grew up with Ren Chenbai, and spent a considerable part of that rare and warm experience watching Ren Chenbai. He used the memories of the Ren family to build a solid armor for himself bit by bit.

It wasn't the first day that the Luo family didn't want him.

Because of this incident, Luo Zhi beat Jian Huaiyi, and contradicted his eldest brother, father, and even Mrs. Luo because of this incident, but he was never so scared and desperate because of this incident.

Because he has always been confident.

He has always known that even if the Luo family doesn't want him, it doesn't matter.

Because he also has—

"That's right." Ren Chenbai suddenly said, "When we came here, what were you looking at?"

Luo Zhi stopped thinking and raised her eyes.

Ren Chenbai has returned to his usual appearance, the coldness is gone, but he seems to be dormant at any time under the gentle appearance and chooses to eat.

Ren Chenbai seems to be very interested in torturing him like this... Just like in the summer when he was a child, Luo Zhi was sitting under the big locust tree, holding a bowl of brown sugar ice powder so cold that the sides of the bowl were steaming, watching Ren Chenbai and Challenge your opponent to a game of chess.

Ren Chenbai always likes to go around in circles, let the opponent seize a chance of life, and then kill it with his own hands.

Little Luo Zhi always forgot to eat ice powder.

He looked fascinatedly at the young Ren Chenbai in front of the chessboard, his eyes calm and confident, and he tapped those chess pieces lightly one after another.

The chess piece was dropped on the board by Ren Chenbai, making a crisp sound.

Life or death.

"...a picture of your car?"

Ren Chenbai said, "No need to read."

Ren Chenbai said: "It was too badly damaged, and it was taken directly to be destroyed."

Luo Zhi frowned slightly as if she didn't understand what he said.

Ren Chenbai took the jacket that was slung aside, searched in his pocket, found a crumpled certificate of destruction, and put it in front of Luo Zhi's eyes.

Ren Chenbai has actually been investigating why Luo Zhi cherishes his car so much.

The baby is so good that no one is allowed to move even a little bit, and the interior of the car has been remodeled. If you don't want to go home and don't work overtime, you can sleep in the car alone.

This matter was kept a secret by Luo Zhi, neither Ren Chenbai nor Jian Huaiyi found out any news.Just because Jian Huaiyi planned to tamper with Luo Zhi's car, Luo Zhi didn't know how to find out before she even had time to implement it, and she stuck her in the car on the night of the birthday party and beat her to death a meal.

Luo Zhi sat up slowly, reaching for the vehicle destruction certificate.

He groped in the wrong direction for the first time, and moved his fingertips until he reached the receipt. He picked it up and moved closer to read each word carefully.

"...Brother Chenbai." Luo Zhi said, "You called the police not to save me, but to destroy my car."

Ren Chenbai originally wanted to let him know about this, so he didn't hide it, and nodded: "I really didn't expect that you would play tricks on me so easily."

Ren Chenbai was actually like everyone else, thinking that Luo Zhi just had a fever occasionally and passed out in the car, so he didn't take it to heart.

It wasn't until Luo Zhi was dragged out and sent to the ambulance that she realized how dangerous the situation was.

Luo Zhi didn't know whether she was listening or not, so she gave a soft "hmm" and looked at the receipt again.

An exploding tinnitus pierced through his mind, like the particularly loud sound that made him jump when he excitedly climbed into that car for the first time and pressed the horn.

Everything in front of him was distorted, turning fast and slow, turning into blurred blocks of color.

"...Don't be afraid."

"Don't be afraid, little flame."

"Luo doesn't like you, we don't like him either!"

"Auntie gave you a car, and when you grow up, you can drive it around the world, wherever you want."

"We will live in the car from now on, and no one will be able to drive us out this time."

"I'm scared, sad, and homesick, so I'm going to hide in the car."

"Well, the sturdiest car, it won't break in 100 years."

……

Luo Zhi has always known that even if the Luo family doesn't want him, it doesn't matter.

Because he also has a family.

His home was that car, the last place he could escape if there was no room for him in this world.

"Why." Luo Zhi asked softly, "To make me even more desperate?"

Ren Chenbai did not deny it, so this is the correct answer.

Luo Zhi nodded.

He said something he couldn't hear, and the white block representing Ren Chen stood up and grabbed his collar tightly.

His tinnitus was severe, he couldn't hear what Ren Chenbai was saying, he could only feel that Ren Chenbai was probably crazy.

The hands trembled violently, shaking him vigorously.

But it doesn't matter, everything in front of him is already spinning, anyway, he won't get more dizzy.

Luo Zhi's face was so pale that he seemed to disappear at any moment, he bent his eyes, smiled obediently, and repeated what he said just now.

"Brother Chenbai, that is Aunt Ren's relic."